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Talking about the news with your friends in 2019 can be embarrassing, tedious, and alienating.
Of course, news and politics have been providing the raw materials for podcasts since long before Trump.
As reflected on this list, a news podcast can do its thing in a variety of idioms.
Its a good, accurate cliche!
But then again, the news isnt supposed to be personal, is it?
They are funny, informed, and sometimes thrillingly mean.
Their thinking is collaborative; they change each others minds.
The Gist
Mike Pesca, host ofTheGistsince 2014, invented the daily news podcast.
Its only a matter of time until audiences demand that they produce new episodes every 30 minutes.
From the beginning, its existence felt urgent.
But its guests, as impressive as they are, are almost beside the point.
Ironically, these anti-capitalists have distinguished themselves in the podcast spaceby printing money on Patreon.
irreverent liberals who think thePod Save Americaguys are a bunch of sellouts.
Instead, the hosts luxuriate in the sometimes quite obscure intricacies of policy proposals and academic papers.
Its a level of patience and immersion that journalists seldom get to achieve in any other form.
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